Showing posts with label dogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dogs. Show all posts

Friday, September 6, 2024

Five Things Friday September 6, 2024

 Perhaps your timelines and newsfeeds are filled with Halloween lately.  The Christmas people are gearing up, though so expect more of that here.

One:  Old suitcases are in fashion now, usually in an appealing stack.  It’s fun to see them used for vignettes such as this too.


Two: On a Scale of Cat, tonight I’m a four. How is your day going?


Three:  Conspiracy theorists, unite!


Four:  They are never getting all of that in the fridge.


Five:  You shouldn’t leave them, you know you shouldn’t.



Monday, June 17, 2024

Separated At Birth?

 Just two hound buddies dozing.


Friday, June 7, 2024

Five Things Friday June 7, 2024

 Yay for the return of an old meme. The original intent of Five Things Friday I’m pretty sure was/is to note five good/inspiring things that happened each week. For some reason this perkiness bugged me and I couldn’t maintain it. 

In this version, I just plink out there any five things from the week. So easy.

One:  We are cat sitting and dog sitting my son’s pets this week.  What a crew.


Two: Year Of The Worm

It has been an insanely wet spring. I’ve been digging in the garden quite a bit anyway. So. Many. Worms! I’m pretty sure they’re all just earth worms, but I’m paranoid about the new super threat Jumping Worms. Eek. How can I tell if the ones I’m digging are regular or Jumping without looking at them all too closely. So gross.

Then, there appear a bunch of bright green worms. Eeew, they’re Cabbage Worms. Drawn by my innocent Purple Broccoli seedlings, is likely. I tossed my seedlings in the trash in a trice. Good thing I haven’t gotten around to planting radishes, nasturtiums, or alyssum. Nas-tee.

No worm portraits will be provided, sorry.


Three: An Ocean of Slobber

Remember the movie Beethoven where the dog shakes himself and there’s slobber everywhere?


I’ve always had beagles. And carpet. I didn’t know my beagle slobbered, but he’s a fountain. Then I adopt a big fuzzy angel of a dog who really has a traveling pool wherever she goes. Add my son’s dog this week. We’re floating ….


Four: I loved this show.




Five:I have the bricks, I have the paint.




Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

D.O.A. Doggies

As I say in this clip, they really are bad doggies.  One of them ate something purple and hacked it up on the carpet upstairs whilst I was relaxing watching Survivor.  Cannot imagine from the "remains" what it was.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Favorite Doggie Tales



After years of having both cats and dogs and loving both, I somehow became an avid dog lover. I still like cats, of course, I just don't have one, but I cannot live without a beagle in my life. The illustrious Doggie D.O.A. is my third beloved beagle, with a personality all his own. He is a great dog and has been since we adopted him. His life is all about scent, going for walks, watching tv in the lap of his mistress or master, or snoozing away under a blanket.

Although my son won't read my blog because "he doesn't read blogs", I did get him to look at it one day while he was home and he liked it. He suggested I put the accompanying photograph of himself and our first beagle "Snoopy" when they were babies together, on the blog.

Since I like to tie in a booklist or some librarian like thing to any post, I also made of list of my all time favorite books about dogs, some of which I read and loved as a child, and some of which I read with my son when he was a wee small guy.

Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra Barracca

Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

Carl’s Masquerade (Carl series) by Alexandra Day

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Hairy Maclary: from Donaldson’s Dairy (Hairy Maclary series) by Lynley Dodd

Go dog go! By P.D. Eastman

Spot’s First Easter (Spot series) by Eric Hill

Snow dog by Jim Kjelgaard

Lassie, Come Home by Eric Mowbray Knight

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Martha Speaks! (Martha series) by Susan Meddaugh

Shiloh (Shiloh series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Dog Breath: the horrible trouble with Hally Tosis by Dav Pilkey

Dogzilla: starring Flash, Rabies, Dwayne, and introducing Leia as the Monster by Dav Pilkey

Henry and Mudge: the first book of their adventures by Cynthia Rylant (I have a little stuffed version of Mudge, be jealous.)

Good boy, Fergus by Dave Shannon (another good suggestion by Floating Lush, this is by the author of No, David! The cover picture little dog reclining comfortably in a chair looks very familiar...)

Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School (Ike LaRue series)by Mark Teague (suggested by the Floating Lush, these look great, I have to track these down.)

Lad: a dog by Albert Payson Terhune